Grow Your Own Colour

Start a dye garden no matter how little space you have, whether it's a window box, balcony or garden.Experience the joy of growing flowers (and also Japanese indigo!) and use your plants to naturally dye cloth.This is the book I wish I'd read years ago... so I wrote it for you!Grow Your Own Colour will show you...how to start gardening if you’ve never done it beforeno-dig gardening methodsstarting seeds indoors vs direct sowing in the groundhow to grow, harvest and dye with 9 different dye plantsthese plants are covered: Japanese indigo, Hopi Black Dye sunflower, French marigold, African marigold, dyer's chamomile, coreopsis, sulphur cosmos, purple pincushion, hollyhock (and a couple of other bonus types of cosmos).harvesting & drying flowerssaving seeds & cross-pollinationdyeing projects for your homegrown flowersbundle dyeing, flower hammering, immersion dyeing (in a dye pot), darkening & painting with iron, modifying the pH of dyedifferent mordant recipes for silk and cellulose fibrescomparing results from soya milk treated fabric, with aluminium acetate, lactate & sulphate, as well as iron post mordanting & paintingguidelines for choosing the right mordant for your particular projecthow to test colour fastness on fabricwhere to buy dried flowers if you just can't wait to grow your own!where to buy seeds (worldwide) Read more